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GOODWELL, Okla. — The No. 13 St. Mary's baseball team closed Oklahoma Panhandle State in dominant fashion Saturday, winning 12-1 in eight innings to sweep the Heartland Conference series.
Derek Moczygemba (Sr., Bulverde, Texas) and
Adrian Garcia (Jr., El Paso, Texas) drove in three RBIs apiece, while
Al Gonzalez (RS-Fr., Pasadena, Texas) added two more as St. Mary's improved to 27-11 overall and 23-6 in Heartland Conference play.
A seven-run fourth inning put away the Aggies (2-35), as the Rattlers built a 10-1 lead to erase what was a 1-0 deficit after the first inning. St. Mary's added two more runs in the eighth to secure the run-rule victory.
Rene Solis (Jr., San Antonio) picked up the win to improve to 5-0 after throwing six complete innings. He scattered four hits and yielded one earned run, striking out three in the process.
Jonathan Perez (Sr., San Antonio) pitched two scoreless innings in relief, striking out two.
Moczygemba, Garcia, Gonzalez and
Kyle Bumpas (Jr., El Paso, Texas) all enjoyed multi-hit days as the Rattlers closed out a series they swept by a combined score of 34-2.
St. Mary's will be back in action on Tuesday, when it hosts Incarnate Word in non-conference action at 6 p.m. at Wolff Stadium. St. Mary's will host a reception from 5-7 p.m. honoring head coach
Charlie Migl, who in Friday's series-opening win earned his 1,000th career victory.
St. Mary's University, as a Catholic Marianist University, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community service, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence. The University has six athletic national titles: men's basketball (1989–NAIA), baseball (2001–NCAA Div. II), softball (1986–NAIA and 2002–NCAA Div. II) and an individual national champion in men's golf (2006–NCAA Div. II) and a national academic championship in men's golf (2009–NCAA Div. II). St. Mary's also had more than 40 percent of its athletes named to conference, regional and/or national honor rolls this past year. St. Mary's student–athletes graduation rate is 65 percent, higher than the NCAA Division II average of 55 percent. To learn more about St. Mary's, visit www.rattlerathletics.com.
